This site features current writing opportunities for authors of all genres, with a preference for Christian publications. The submission opportunities featured on this blog site have been collected by Sally Clark. The source of the information is listed at the bottom of each post. Please check these websites for additional writing articles and information on submissions in other genres.

If you experience any problems with the links or with submitting your material, please let me know. If you would like to receive free submission information via a daily email, drop me a line at sally@sallyclark.infoand your name will be added to the e-list. Your name email address will never be shared or sold to anyone else. Promise!

Browsing Archive: October, 2016

We are so proud of the men and women in the military and want to do everything we can to support them. We are looking for true stories from soldiers who defend and protect our country — both active and retired — and from their families who make sacrifices when their loved ones are far away. Those families move with them, anxiously wait for them, raise kids and grow up with a parent or child away. They are an importan...

The Grey Wolfe Publishing Monthly Contest for November, 2016 is Wizards and Warriors.

You’re playing a video game called Wizards & Warriors when, suddenly, lighten strikes the house, scaring you and causing you to black out. When you wake up, you’re trapped inside the game. The only items you have is a sword, a backpack and a note attached to your shirt that reads, “Beat me and I’ll s...

Yvonne Lehman has 5 new Moments anthologies in the works. This is a non-paying market, but royalties go to Samaritan's Purse. Please email Yvonne for any questions.

MOMENTS BOOKS: Send your personal articles!

Take a look at previous Moments books that Grace Published has released, particularly the first one, Divine Moments, to see what we accept. The article length is anywhere from about 500-2000 words or so. I’ve even incl...

OVERVIEW: Think of a time when you had to wear a hat — in church, during graduation, on a winter day, at a wedding, on the beach, at a baseball game, while cooking or gardening, on a date, at a rodeo, while fishing or golfing, while dressed as Santa Claus — and write a poem or prose piece about yourself in the particular hat.

Starting in January 2016, bimonthly issues will resume at Enchanted Conversation: A Fairy Tale Magazine. Six times a year, writers and poets will have a chance to submit fairy-tale inspired stories and poems. No non-fiction of any kind.

Submission periods is: November 1 – November 30, 2016.

Each of the six submission periods for 2016 will have a theme. Here they are: January: Valentine's Day, ...

Riverfeet Press is currently accepting submissions for our first annual anthology, which will go to print mid-2017, and we will continue to accept submissions until full. We are open to a wide variety of writing styles and content, and lean more towards outdoor/nature themes. If your work is chosen, we will include an author bio, and links to any other promotional material or websites you may have. We want this to be a ...

SEEK® is a magazine created to encourage adults in their walk with Jesus Christ. SEEK® corresponds to the topics of Standard Publishing’s adult curriculum line and is designed to further apply these topics to everyday life.

“One foot in this world and one in the next”: that’s how J.F. Powers described the Midwestern priests he wrote about in his fiction. Having one foot in another world can be awkward, and Powers’ characters are known not for their graceful mysticism, but for the humiliating and mordantly entertaining stumbles they make while trying to live their fa...

SEEK® is a magazine created to encourage adults in their walk with Jesus Christ. SEEK® corresponds to the topics of Standard Publishing’s adult curriculum line and is designed to further apply these topics to everyday life.

We love to discover new writers and promote their work alongside more experienced authors. Always looking for regional stories and writers with a Midwest connection... but will read, consider and appreciate everything sent to us. Open to all writers. Open to most styles and subjects, including Regional, Spiritual/Religion, Ani...

The Fabulist and Fantastic Flash Fiction Contest is open to any writer, and is the only time during the year that we accept flash fiction submissions.

Each entry is $5, and can contain one or two pieces of flash fiction, each no longer than 1000 words. Writers may submit however many entries they wish, so long as they pay the $5 entry fee for each entry. Simultaneous submissions are wel...

Adults from anywhere in the United States may each send us a single poem based on a theme offered later in this announcement. A panel of judges will evaluate these poems and pick a winner and a runner-up. Both the winners and runners-up will receive prizes, and will be published on Fourth & Sycamore. An original floral arrangement insp...

The Poetry Society of New Hampshire sponsors two National Contests open to all poets, members or not. Judges for the contests are not members of the Poetry Society of New Hampshire. Prizes are awarded to four places, 1st place, $100, 2nd place, $50, 3rd and 4th places $25 each. Winning poems will be published in our quarterly magazine, The Poets Touchstone, and winning poets will receive one copy ...

The 2017 Nonfiction Prize is now open–we invite you to submit your work!

Our VanderMey Nonfiction Prize has gained national recognition, with our 2013 recipient receiving a Pushcart Prize and appearing in the 2013 Pushcart Prize anthology.The winner of the VanderMey Nonfiction Prize will receive $1500 and publication in the Fall 2016 issue. The runne...

Twelve categories open to anyone to enter including religious theme, lyric poems, history of South Carolina, some aspect of theatre, and more. Prizes range from $50 to $500. Winning poems are published. No previously published poems.

The annual winner receives a $500 prize and publication in the winter issue of Harpur Palate.

Opens: September 1Postmark Deadline: November 15

Harpur Palate accepts previously unpublished poems in any style, form, or genre. The $15 entry fee includes a one-year subscription to Harpur Palate. No more than five poems per entry. Please send checks...

Winners of the contest will be published in a future issue of F(r)iction alongside stunning original artwork from TBL’s talented team of artists. Flash and poetry winners receive $300 first price. Short story wi...

SEEK® is a magazine created to encourage adults in their walk with Jesus Christ. SEEK® corresponds to the topics of Standard Publishing’s adult curriculum line and is designed to further apply these topics to everyday life.

The Windhover Writers’ Festival is hosted by the literary journal Windhover at the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor in Belton, Texas. Each February the festival brings in featured presenters who give readings and lead workshops.

Windhover Writers’ Festival invites writers of creative nonfiction, fiction, nonfiction, and poetry to submit a selection of their work to be considered for presentation at the Univer...

SEEK® is a magazine created to encourage adults in their walk with Jesus Christ. SEEK® corresponds to the topics of Standard Publishing’s adult curriculum line and is designed to further apply these topics to everyday life.

The Jane Lumley Prize is awarded annually to a poet whose written work revels in the full spirit of creating a literary architecture that inspires the readers to engage with its being beyond the words and feelings that constitute it.

The winner, judged in a blind review by a guest judge, will receive a prize of $300 and will be featured in the January 2017 edition of Herm...

Do you have an amazing real-life story? Tell It to Glamour! Every woman has a moment in life that changes everything. What’s that moment for you? We'd love to find out. To enter this year’s contest, send us your essay—no more than 3,500 words—by November 1. You could win $5,000, see your story in Glamour, and speak with a top New York literary agent.

NonBinary Review is a quarterly digital literary journal that joins poetry, fiction, essays, and art around each issue's theme. We invite authors to explore each theme in any way that speaks to them: re-write a familiar story from a new point of view, mash genres together, give us a personal essay about some aspect of our theme that has haunte...

The Zebulon is Pikes Peak Writers Fiction Writing Contest, designed to mimic the current process of publishing by employing a multi-tiered judging format and a three-pronged submission consisting of a query letter, a synopsis, and a selection from the manuscript. Pikes Peak Writers believes that in order to succeed in today’s market, writers must not only be able to write good books, they must be able ...

"New York Encounter is sponsoring a poetry contest to celebrate the theme of its 2017 event. The Encounter is an annual three-day public cultural event in the heart of New York City. It strives to witness to the new life and knowledge generated by the faith, following Pope Benedict’s claim that 'the intelligence of faith has to become the intelligence of reality...

SHINE brightly is a monthly Christian magazine for young girls (9-14). The next theme is “loving others/service.” When girls accept God’s overflowing love it’s impossible for it not to spill over into the lives of others. This issue will explore how girls can love others well and serve their communities.

SEEK® is a magazine created to encourage adults in their walk with Jesus Christ. SEEK® corresponds to the topics of Standard Publishing’s adult curriculum line and is designed to further apply these topics to everyday life.

IMPORTANT:All work for all 3 awards should be unpublished at the time it’s submitted to us and not promised for publication either in print or online. It's fine if your work’s accepted elsewhere for publication while we’re considering it. Just let us know so we can congratulate you. But we’ll still con...

Time Of Singing is a literary Christian poetry magazine with “Christian” defined in the widest sense of the word. The quarterly journal prints verse that talk about God and our relationship with Him and each other--as well as general inspirational or nature poems.

Winner receives $50, publication in issue 7 of The Lindenwood Review, and three contributor copies. Honorable mentions receive publication in issue 7 of The Lindenwood Review and three contributor copies.

Lyric essays may be submitted via Submittable from July 1 through November 1. No more than three lyric essays may be submitted ...

This is a quarterly contest in which you use the first line prompt they provide to write your story of 300 to 5,000 words. The editors are open to all genres and try to pick as eclectic a group of winners as possible. There is no entry fee.

The next deadline is November 1, 2016. The first line of the story must be: “In the six years I spent tracking David Addley, it never occurred to me that ...

Browsing Archive: October, 2016

We are so proud of the men and women in the military and want to do everything we can to support them. We are looking for true stories from soldiers who defend and protect our country — both active and retired — and from their families who make sacrifices when their loved ones are far away. Those families move with them, anxiously wait for them, raise kids and grow up with a parent or child away. They are an importan...

The Grey Wolfe Publishing Monthly Contest for November, 2016 is Wizards and Warriors.

You’re playing a video game called Wizards & Warriors when, suddenly, lighten strikes the house, scaring you and causing you to black out. When you wake up, you’re trapped inside the game. The only items you have is a sword, a backpack and a note attached to your shirt that reads, “Beat me and I’ll s...

Yvonne Lehman has 5 new Moments anthologies in the works. This is a non-paying market, but royalties go to Samaritan's Purse. Please email Yvonne for any questions.

MOMENTS BOOKS: Send your personal articles!

Take a look at previous Moments books that Grace Published has released, particularly the first one, Divine Moments, to see what we accept. The article length is anywhere from about 500-2000 words or so. I’ve even incl...

OVERVIEW: Think of a time when you had to wear a hat — in church, during graduation, on a winter day, at a wedding, on the beach, at a baseball game, while cooking or gardening, on a date, at a rodeo, while fishing or golfing, while dressed as Santa Claus — and write a poem or prose piece about yourself in the particular hat.

Starting in January 2016, bimonthly issues will resume at Enchanted Conversation: A Fairy Tale Magazine. Six times a year, writers and poets will have a chance to submit fairy-tale inspired stories and poems. No non-fiction of any kind.

Submission periods is: November 1 – November 30, 2016.

Each of the six submission periods for 2016 will have a theme. Here they are: January: Valentine's Day, ...

Riverfeet Press is currently accepting submissions for our first annual anthology, which will go to print mid-2017, and we will continue to accept submissions until full. We are open to a wide variety of writing styles and content, and lean more towards outdoor/nature themes. If your work is chosen, we will include an author bio, and links to any other promotional material or websites you may have. We want this to be a ...

SEEK® is a magazine created to encourage adults in their walk with Jesus Christ. SEEK® corresponds to the topics of Standard Publishing’s adult curriculum line and is designed to further apply these topics to everyday life.

“One foot in this world and one in the next”: that’s how J.F. Powers described the Midwestern priests he wrote about in his fiction. Having one foot in another world can be awkward, and Powers’ characters are known not for their graceful mysticism, but for the humiliating and mordantly entertaining stumbles they make while trying to live their fa...

SEEK® is a magazine created to encourage adults in their walk with Jesus Christ. SEEK® corresponds to the topics of Standard Publishing’s adult curriculum line and is designed to further apply these topics to everyday life.

We love to discover new writers and promote their work alongside more experienced authors. Always looking for regional stories and writers with a Midwest connection... but will read, consider and appreciate everything sent to us. Open to all writers. Open to most styles and subjects, including Regional, Spiritual/Religion, Ani...

The Fabulist and Fantastic Flash Fiction Contest is open to any writer, and is the only time during the year that we accept flash fiction submissions.

Each entry is $5, and can contain one or two pieces of flash fiction, each no longer than 1000 words. Writers may submit however many entries they wish, so long as they pay the $5 entry fee for each entry. Simultaneous submissions are wel...

Adults from anywhere in the United States may each send us a single poem based on a theme offered later in this announcement. A panel of judges will evaluate these poems and pick a winner and a runner-up. Both the winners and runners-up will receive prizes, and will be published on Fourth & Sycamore. An original floral arrangement insp...

The Poetry Society of New Hampshire sponsors two National Contests open to all poets, members or not. Judges for the contests are not members of the Poetry Society of New Hampshire. Prizes are awarded to four places, 1st place, $100, 2nd place, $50, 3rd and 4th places $25 each. Winning poems will be published in our quarterly magazine, The Poets Touchstone, and winning poets will receive one copy ...

The 2017 Nonfiction Prize is now open–we invite you to submit your work!

Our VanderMey Nonfiction Prize has gained national recognition, with our 2013 recipient receiving a Pushcart Prize and appearing in the 2013 Pushcart Prize anthology.The winner of the VanderMey Nonfiction Prize will receive $1500 and publication in the Fall 2016 issue. The runne...

Twelve categories open to anyone to enter including religious theme, lyric poems, history of South Carolina, some aspect of theatre, and more. Prizes range from $50 to $500. Winning poems are published. No previously published poems.

The annual winner receives a $500 prize and publication in the winter issue of Harpur Palate.

Opens: September 1Postmark Deadline: November 15

Harpur Palate accepts previously unpublished poems in any style, form, or genre. The $15 entry fee includes a one-year subscription to Harpur Palate. No more than five poems per entry. Please send checks...

Winners of the contest will be published in a future issue of F(r)iction alongside stunning original artwork from TBL’s talented team of artists. Flash and poetry winners receive $300 first price. Short story wi...

SEEK® is a magazine created to encourage adults in their walk with Jesus Christ. SEEK® corresponds to the topics of Standard Publishing’s adult curriculum line and is designed to further apply these topics to everyday life.

The Windhover Writers’ Festival is hosted by the literary journal Windhover at the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor in Belton, Texas. Each February the festival brings in featured presenters who give readings and lead workshops.

Windhover Writers’ Festival invites writers of creative nonfiction, fiction, nonfiction, and poetry to submit a selection of their work to be considered for presentation at the Univer...

SEEK® is a magazine created to encourage adults in their walk with Jesus Christ. SEEK® corresponds to the topics of Standard Publishing’s adult curriculum line and is designed to further apply these topics to everyday life.

The Jane Lumley Prize is awarded annually to a poet whose written work revels in the full spirit of creating a literary architecture that inspires the readers to engage with its being beyond the words and feelings that constitute it.

The winner, judged in a blind review by a guest judge, will receive a prize of $300 and will be featured in the January 2017 edition of Herm...

Do you have an amazing real-life story? Tell It to Glamour! Every woman has a moment in life that changes everything. What’s that moment for you? We'd love to find out. To enter this year’s contest, send us your essay—no more than 3,500 words—by November 1. You could win $5,000, see your story in Glamour, and speak with a top New York literary agent.

NonBinary Review is a quarterly digital literary journal that joins poetry, fiction, essays, and art around each issue's theme. We invite authors to explore each theme in any way that speaks to them: re-write a familiar story from a new point of view, mash genres together, give us a personal essay about some aspect of our theme that has haunte...

The Zebulon is Pikes Peak Writers Fiction Writing Contest, designed to mimic the current process of publishing by employing a multi-tiered judging format and a three-pronged submission consisting of a query letter, a synopsis, and a selection from the manuscript. Pikes Peak Writers believes that in order to succeed in today’s market, writers must not only be able to write good books, they must be able ...

"New York Encounter is sponsoring a poetry contest to celebrate the theme of its 2017 event. The Encounter is an annual three-day public cultural event in the heart of New York City. It strives to witness to the new life and knowledge generated by the faith, following Pope Benedict’s claim that 'the intelligence of faith has to become the intelligence of reality...

SHINE brightly is a monthly Christian magazine for young girls (9-14). The next theme is “loving others/service.” When girls accept God’s overflowing love it’s impossible for it not to spill over into the lives of others. This issue will explore how girls can love others well and serve their communities.

SEEK® is a magazine created to encourage adults in their walk with Jesus Christ. SEEK® corresponds to the topics of Standard Publishing’s adult curriculum line and is designed to further apply these topics to everyday life.

IMPORTANT:All work for all 3 awards should be unpublished at the time it’s submitted to us and not promised for publication either in print or online. It's fine if your work’s accepted elsewhere for publication while we’re considering it. Just let us know so we can congratulate you. But we’ll still con...

Time Of Singing is a literary Christian poetry magazine with “Christian” defined in the widest sense of the word. The quarterly journal prints verse that talk about God and our relationship with Him and each other--as well as general inspirational or nature poems.

Winner receives $50, publication in issue 7 of The Lindenwood Review, and three contributor copies. Honorable mentions receive publication in issue 7 of The Lindenwood Review and three contributor copies.

Lyric essays may be submitted via Submittable from July 1 through November 1. No more than three lyric essays may be submitted ...

This is a quarterly contest in which you use the first line prompt they provide to write your story of 300 to 5,000 words. The editors are open to all genres and try to pick as eclectic a group of winners as possible. There is no entry fee.

The next deadline is November 1, 2016. The first line of the story must be: “In the six years I spent tracking David Addley, it never occurred to me that ...

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Sally Clark

Fredericksburg, Tx

Like finding shells on the beach, I love doing market research! And what I find, I love to share! I write in a variety of genres including children's, Christian, poetry, fiction, and nonfiction, so these post follow along those lines. Check out my web site: www.sallyclark.info, for more about me.